Because the Board is not a party to a settlement agreement, parties seeking to terminate a post-grant proceeding pursuant to a settlement agreement should attempt to resolve the matter prior to completion of the briefing to avoid a final written decision from Patent Trial and Appeals Board (the Board).

Parties, even tangentially, involved in patent litigation should be aware of recent developments in the Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings so that they are not adversely affected by the actions or inactions of others at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

On 21 March 2011 the Code Committee of the UK Takeover Panel (the "Panel") published a public consultation paper (PCP 2011/1) setting out proposed amendments to the UK Takeover Code (the "Code") which were triggered by the Panel following Kraft's £11.5bn hostile takeover of Cadbury last year.

The principles of corporate governance are well established for
UK public listed companies, and the perceived benefits of good
corporate governance for those companies and their shareholders,
the wider investment community and indeed the national economy, are
well understood.